Book Description
This book examines the way Bernard of Clairvaux, in his writings, shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of biblical and liturgical texts and scenes on the one hand and uncontrollable events and emotions on the other.
Author : M. B. Pranger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004100558
This book examines the way Bernard of Clairvaux, in his writings, shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of biblical and liturgical texts and scenes on the one hand and uncontrollable events and emotions on the other.
Author : Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004201394
Bernard of Clairvaux emerges from these studies as a vibrant, challenging and illuminating representative of the monastic culture of the twelfth century. In taking on Peter Abelard and the new scholasticism he helped define the very world he opposed and thus contributed to the renaissance of the twelfth century.
Author : Bernard of Clairvaux
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0879071680
Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Cîteaux in 1113. In 1115 he became the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey, whence his name, Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard was a gifted and prolific writer of theological treatises, Scriptural commentaries, letters, and many sermons. The sermons in the collection published here, styled Sermones de diversis (Sermons about Various Topics), lack the specific point of departure that characterizes his other sermons. That is, whereas the sermons on the Song of Songs are a verse-by-verse commentary on that biblical book and his Sermons for the Year follow the liturgical calendar, this collection of sermons deals with his various pastoral concerns. Since Scripture is always Bernard’s point of departure and inspiration, the sermons often read like a Scripture study, but what comes through equally is the voice of an understanding spiritual father who is a masterful student of Scripture, biblical language, and the needs of his monks.
Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781579580902
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Carolyn Muessig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004108837
This book demonstrates that monastic preaching was a diverse activity which included preaching by monks, nuns and heretics. The study offers a preliminary step in understanding how preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.
Author : M. B. Pranger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804745246
In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.
Author : Mette Birkedal Bruun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107001315
Presents the Order's figureheads, practical life and spiritual horizon, and its contribution to medieval Europe's religious, cultural and political climate.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 904740727X
This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to monastic morality (Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Folieto, Hugh of Saint Victor, Peter Abelard); another five to (proto-)scholastic thought (John of Salisbury, Peter Abelard, Stephen Langton, the idea of natural virtue, the justification of lying); three discuss moral issues in a wider social context (liberality vs. avarice, royal justice in England, the cardinal virtues and the French monarchy). The two remaining contributions explore ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. With contributions by István P. Bejczy, Céline Billot-Vilandreau, Marcia L. Colish, Jeroen Laemers, John Kitchen, Cary J. Nederman, Richard G. Newhauser, Willemien Otten, Burcht Pranger, Riccardo Quinto, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Arjo Vanderjagt, Björn Weiler and George Wilkes.
Author : M.B. Pranger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 900418936X
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?
Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520922913
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture. Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars. Consistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.